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<blockquote data-quote="Alhandra" data-source="post: 1028437" data-attributes="member: 1206"><p><strong>Re: Re: The Paladin's Code...and TIME TRAVEL!</strong></p><p></p><p>You are ascribing greater flexibility to the hypothetical situation than was revealed.</p><p></p><p>You can't wave your hand and say "The Paladin could stop him some other way", or "He could force him to rehabilitate!"</p><p></p><p>Those are not options in this scenario, so digressing into the infinite options available is blunting the original question.</p><p></p><p>similarly, the question is not one of time-travel, or it's potential for paradoxes and the like.</p><p></p><p>It's a question of a paladin's behavior.</p><p>And I, for one, have already killed so much evil, why would i flinch when my skills are needed once again?</p><p>I am not stupid enough to need Evil to be in the act of commiting evil to take it out - that would hamstring me into uselessness.</p><p></p><p>All I need is to have the Evil prove to me that he is Evil be sensing it myself.</p><p></p><p>If when I time travel back, and the being is not Evil at the time, thats a tougher question. If that was the case, I'd prefer to timetravel back to when he was most assuredly Evil, but before he'd done much harm.</p><p></p><p>If I had to decide whether to kill an innocent, who was NOT evil yet, but one that was destined, without possibility of converting, to become Evil and do much harm, than I would still do it, unflinchingly.</p><p></p><p>It would kill a part of me, to kill an innocent, but I would do it for the benefit of all.</p><p>even if it damned my soul - I am but an instrument of god's Justice, sent to weed thru the chaff, and cut the bad out before it spreads.</p><p>and if I was sent back, than it was proof that my diety wanted me to do this act.</p><p>Plus, I could always consult my Phylatery of Faithfullness <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> <-- pure cheesy way out</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alhandra, post: 1028437, member: 1206"] [b]Re: Re: The Paladin's Code...and TIME TRAVEL![/b] You are ascribing greater flexibility to the hypothetical situation than was revealed. You can't wave your hand and say "The Paladin could stop him some other way", or "He could force him to rehabilitate!" Those are not options in this scenario, so digressing into the infinite options available is blunting the original question. similarly, the question is not one of time-travel, or it's potential for paradoxes and the like. It's a question of a paladin's behavior. And I, for one, have already killed so much evil, why would i flinch when my skills are needed once again? I am not stupid enough to need Evil to be in the act of commiting evil to take it out - that would hamstring me into uselessness. All I need is to have the Evil prove to me that he is Evil be sensing it myself. If when I time travel back, and the being is not Evil at the time, thats a tougher question. If that was the case, I'd prefer to timetravel back to when he was most assuredly Evil, but before he'd done much harm. If I had to decide whether to kill an innocent, who was NOT evil yet, but one that was destined, without possibility of converting, to become Evil and do much harm, than I would still do it, unflinchingly. It would kill a part of me, to kill an innocent, but I would do it for the benefit of all. even if it damned my soul - I am but an instrument of god's Justice, sent to weed thru the chaff, and cut the bad out before it spreads. and if I was sent back, than it was proof that my diety wanted me to do this act. Plus, I could always consult my Phylatery of Faithfullness ;) <-- pure cheesy way out [/QUOTE]
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